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Pin for NeckwearShields.

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WERNER W. FIOHTENBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO MORITZ FIOHTENBERG, OF SAME PLACE.

PIN F OR NECKWEAR-SHIELDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,667, dated March 8, 1881.

Application filed December 23, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WERNER W. FIOHTEN- BERG, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pins for N eckwear- Shields; and I do hereby declare that the following is a clear and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a pin that can be held more firmly in the shield of neckwear than has been done heretofore, and at the same time stiffen and strengthen the shield.

The invention will be understood as set forth in the following specification and claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a back view of a shield with my improved pin applied. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing a modification of the pin, it being extended across the shield several times, as shown.

Similar letters indicate like parts in both figures.

A is the shield, formed of card-board, cloth, covered paper, or other light and flexible material.

B B is the pin and stiffener, formed of one continuous piece of wire or other thin narrow metal. It passes obliquely down one side of the shield, and is bent horizontally across the shield, as shown at B, and is suitably fastened thereto. The pin portion B extends beyond the edge of the shield and has the point 0.

The stiffener portion B may cross the shield more than once; but I have found once to be sufficien t, both for the purpose of securing the pin and for stiffening the shield.

What I claim is In combination with the shield A, the pin and stiffener B B, composed of a single piece bent as shown, the pin portion passed along the shield in an oblique direction downward,

with the point projecting below, and the stiff? ener portion carried along the back in a horizontal direction to near the edge, the pin B B being fastened to the shield in any suitable manner, substantially as shown and set forth.

F. BARRITT, FREDK. B. SWIFT. 

